<p>If i end up with 1500+ SAT, 3.88 GPA, and around 10 APs (probably all 3+)
but NO ECs(club,research…anything) and horrible essay/interview skills</p>
<p>do I even have a chance??</p>
<p>interview = small portion of your app. Don't worry about this one.
essay = have people read your essay and use constructive criticism to your adv.
1500+ SAT = do you mean CR + M?
3.88 GPA = unweighted or weighted?
10 APs = including senior year?</p>
<p>Just be a bit more specific. And again, asking CCers is just asking for criticism or blind support from people who don't know you. We aren't AOs. We're just students trying to build our self-confidence by consulting an internet website.</p>
<p>whoaa that was fast.
sat, yes. gpa, unweighted. aps, senior included (before that only 4 actually...)</p>
<p>and ur right about the last couple sentences too. I just want to decide if I should put all this extra EC stuff in during my last high school years, or just have fun and take some courses on architecture instead... If I work hard in vain...all I'm gonna do is look back and think about what a waste of time high school was. If I work hard and it works, I'd be glad that I decided to do so</p>
<p>I'm getting confused reading wut I just wrote -_- sorry.</p>
<p>A lot of people will have good SATs, gpa, and lots of APs. Your ECs and essays are the way to distinguish yourself. </p>
<p>You should try as hard as you can in terms of the ECs/essays/interview. Don't limit yourself to "horrible" before you've even started it.</p>
<p>When you suddenly go from no ECs to several late in your junior year, most admissions officers understand what happened -- that you just joined things for college applications. And that does not impress them.</p>
<p>Do you have a job? That is considered an EC.</p>
<p>I'm not an admissions officer, but have been interviewing HS students for Brown for 30+ years. While there are students who get accepted who have limited ECs, there is something else that makes them attractive -- obvious academic genius, a ton of money, a celebrity parent. There are hundreds of colleges out there, many of them where you can get an excellent education, that don't care about ECs, or essays or interviews. Brown tends to care about that stuff.</p>